{"product_id":"john-waynes-america-9780684838830","title":"John Wayne's America","description":"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLincoln at Gettysburg\u003c\/i\u003e brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality--the biography of an idea--Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our cultoure to a degree unmatched by any other public figure of his time. In Wills's hands, Waynes story is tranformed into a compelling narrative about the intersection of popular entertainment and political realities in mid-twentieth-century America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGarry Wills is the author of 21 books, including the bestseller \u003ci\u003eLincoln at Gettysburg \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003ci\u003eJohn Wayne's America, Certain Trumpets, Under God, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNecessary Evil.\u003c\/i\u003e A frequent contributor to many national publications, including the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e he is also an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514302959890,"sku":"9780684838830","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_500c985f-8679-4194-bf9b-9fecb7c37868.jpg?v=1730978758","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/john-waynes-america-9780684838830","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}